->    So what do they charge to print a book in vanity press?
 EH> Whatever the traffic will bear!
       Okay, so say you've got a wild hair to write a book/novel/
     short story collection. YOU think they're good, and so do the
     people you show them too... but you'd like to make money off
     them instead of paying a vanity press to print them. Where do
     you start? Get an agent? Send copies to major publishers?
     Forget it and go back to your regular boring job?  So do
     you have an e-mail adr.? I'd like to discuss this more with
     you, w/o hacking off the regular birdie folks here. Mine is
     shathawa@mail.win.org 
 ->      Do they try to sell them for you?
 EH> Not HARDLY!  A truck backs up to your garage one day and there are
 EH> your books!  AND the final bill. They get about 50% up front.
        Ick. My brother-in-law wrote a book last summer, a non-fiction
      expose type thing of the health care industry. He got it published,
      but it's only sold about 10 copies (9 of which were us family). :(
      He did get a nice advance tho. Do you have to give the advance
      back if the book doesn't sell a certain amount of copies?
 -> I'm curious... are you on here because you have a parrot too?
 EH> I've HAD parrots, presently too poor to buy another.  Making do with a
 EH> Cooky-roo-dove.  (Ringneck)
        Aw, those are sweet. Are they good pets, or more like canaries
      and finches... pretty to look at and listen to? Maybe you will
      luck out like some people i heard of (friends of a friend). They
      found a blue-and-gold macaw going thru their apartment building
      dumpster one day, took him in, posted Lost Birdie signs, no one
      called, so now he's theirs! What a love story! :)
        (DISCLAIMER NOTICE TO MODERATOR: See, we DID slip in a parrot
      comment or two here!) 
             Sue
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